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asciilifeform: 'poetic justice' - the idiot who bought segway corp. ended up driving his... off a cliff.
antephialtic: Dean Kamen must have had a friend in the DoJ
asciilifeform: accounted for a good fraction of the net sales
asciilifeform: if i recall, there was a fed. gov grant for them to buy the machines
antephialtic: like a less intimidating version of robocop
antephialtic: actually I have seen quite a few urban cops on segways.
diametric: poor white guys only fare a little bit better
Mats_cd03: cops is a theatrical production
antephialtic: if you are a white guy it is pretty much cheat mode
Mats_cd03: if someone makes t shirts with "i am satoshi nakamoto" with a v for vendetta theme or ghost in the shell, i will be your first customer
mircea_popescu: heh i got confused earlier. " you can make a friendly request, or you can make a legal request" is what i meant
mircea_popescu: to make a legal request you gotta make that legal request. i wouldn't presume to teach teh sec how to do that.
mircea_popescu: to make a friendly request you gotta be friends. the path ot becoming friends is detailed.
mircea_popescu: basically, there's two avenues open. you can make a legal request, or you can make a legal request.
Mats_cd03: A la Fight Club
Mats_cd03: Can "I am Satoshi Nakamoto" be a thing?
antephialtic: well, good luck with the SEC business. I suspect it will bring you a lot of attention, releasing those emails has definitely already made some waves.
diametric: I like the ones where you're not actually a person, but a group of individuals pretending to be a guy named Mircea Popescu
mircea_popescu: lol if it weren't a security issue i suppose i could make rings for people
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i like to imagine that it covers the cost of a girl etching the new key in a granite plinth
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: unless i'm mistaken, this counts as buying a new subscription
diametric: It saddens me my get in wot is not of one generated with a cardano.
asciilifeform: that is, the contrivance i assume everyone here is presently using in lieu of a cardano
asciilifeform: mp proposed a tentative price at one point, but that was some time ago
mircea_popescu: sounds like a winner.
antephialtic: I was recently looking into buying a hardware device for GPG signing and everything on the market looks pretty clunky. I stumbled onto the Cardano, and it seemed pretty well suited to my use case
asciilifeform: antephialtic: there is to be a cardano at mp's party. if you really can't wait, you can come and buy that one.
antephialtic: asciilifeform: when can I buy a cardano?
asciilifeform: voltage dividers also have a nasty habit of non-linearity over current draw
asciilifeform: 'buck converter' is more efficient, in that it works by letting a cap charge to the desired voltage and then empty into another
mircea_popescu: ie, they discharge at a given rate, you can alter their actual voltage by the resistence ?
asciilifeform: which is to say, they are, in the sense that a li cell that's been dead for decades will sometimes measure 3.0
mircea_popescu: to a large degree buttons are small regulating neh ?
mircea_popescu: just add a bunch of cells neh ?
novusordo: i'm trying to figure out how to power my raspberry pi on 5V to send up in a balloon soon
asciilifeform: diametric: you might be able to get away with a re-purposed car->usb converter
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i hope they did at least a dozen troll secretions/year
antephialtic: BCB: you have a link to the original complaint?
BCB: antephialtic, I'll dig up a link for you.
antephialtic: BCB: no, but I'm going to have a look
antephialtic: mircea_popescu: let this be a lesson (not to you, but to us) on the importance of using techniques such as merge avoidance, coinjoin & coinswap.
diametric: I'm just curious, the easiest ones I've seen have been the ti simpler switcher ones, but they're not at all a dropin for a 7805
antephialtic: and the bumpkins at the SEC may have been given access to such a tool built by such a contractor.
Ademan: diametric: there's a buck converter that's intended to be a drop in for the 7805 actually, it's a bit pricey though
diametric: anyone have a particular cheap 5v buck converter module on ebay they've had not burn their homes down?
BCB: SEC has a blockchain parser with you names next to all the addresses.
mircea_popescu: antephialtic it was delisted like a year ago
Ademan: He can afford a lawyer, maybe his lawyer informed him otherwise :-p
decimation: here's a link specific to ukraine http://www.lnu.edu.ua/personal/mdlviv/roboty/grmminor.html
decimation: the irony of all this ukrainian nazi talk is that germans were in ukraine for a long time - they were forcibly resettled by Stalin http://www.geocurrents.info/place/russia-ukraine-and-caucasus/the-tragic-saga-of-the-volga-germans
nubbins`: it's like a competition to see whose website can look the shittiest
benkay: mircea_popescu: may i post a copy of the s.dice contract on my blog?
mircea_popescu: anyone kept a copy of the s.dice contract ?
novusordo: i'll create momcoin under a different pseudonym, and give it slightly different properties than cryptoshekels
mircea_popescu: novusordo momcoin. not a bad idea
novusordo: seems like everyone and their mother has a personal altcoin now
Orion__: i have a tiny little problem and i'm in need of an expert
novusordo: one of AM's previous resellers posted something about a new miner, with specs
kakobrekla: where service is a proxy via exchange
dexX7: Ademan: additionally there are some who believe there was already a test run with the new chips and a reseller already promoted an am gen3 based miner
asciilifeform: my impression was that he suggested coupling a bitbet-like apparatus to a trading bot.
asciilifeform: roughly, fooling the system by betting in a particular way should always have -EV.
ThickAsThieves: there's mor ethan one way to design such a thing for bitbet, so i could see a bad design being possible
asciilifeform: not that it's a bad idea per se, just that the builder must be careful to avoid creating a situation where someone can lift out of his pockets by artificially steering the machine using a heavy bet
ThickAsThieves: kako only suggested a conversion mechanism, no?
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: any kind of heavy machinery directly wired to a prediction market is, well... this.
diametric: oh wait it has a link in it
asciilifeform: 'Imagine a chess game. Now, imagine a group of kibitzers watching the chess game. Now, imagine the kibitzers begin to bet on the game. The betting will create odds. The odds express each side's probability of winning. This is a prediction market. To turn this prediction market into a decision market, we say: could we get rid of one of the players, and just have the kibitzers play the game?'
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: that sounds like a good way to end up playing 'moldbug's chess'
Ademan: it's also a sufficient PITA to buy BTC (legally) and the average person *likes* investing in HerpDerp Corp, and are no doubt frightened by there being no CEO of Bitcoin to hate
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: yes, i know of this - one time got a new job and forgot to opt out, lost a few bucks into nevernever land
asciilifeform: why does anybody interested in btc need a 'fund' ?
Shakespeare: such a painful sentence
Shakespeare: "SecondMarket Inc. is racing to open up a private bitcoin investment fund to ordinary investors as soon as the fourth quarter, potentially beating a rival offering by two investors best known for their lawsuit against Facebook Inc. FB -1.37% chief executive Mark Zuckerberg."
Shakespeare: SecondMarket seeks to get a call from Ms. Waxman
Shakespeare: what's this nonsense where if you direct link a WSJ article, you get a paywall
Shakespeare: so overall not a bad out for whoever
Shakespeare: last week it was a similar price though
dexX7: "Some of the sources are at http://github.com/trezor/. We are in the process of finalizing and cleaning up the sources and preparing a security audit of the code. We will publish the sources before shipping TREZOR to our customers."
ninjashogun: are you exchanging a symmetric password with someone over this channel? ;-)
asciilifeform: dexX7: the vendor's site has a bunch of stuff but none of the actual interesting bits. this may change at some point, ask him.
Shakespeare: "and an e-mail sent to a general mailbox at SatochiDice was unanswered." I wonder why!
mircea_popescu: is this the same one as before or a totally different identical one ?
asciilifeform: it is largely about how tigers were hunted (written by a professional)
Apocalyptic: asciilifeform, is it worth a read ?
asciilifeform: benderp: impalement (of the king vlad, rather than assyrian, variety) was a much more leisurely affair
asciilifeform: it was in a mechanic's shop
asciilifeform: where the germans came across a school full of orthodox jews and publicly dispatched them in exactly this way.
asciilifeform: it was largely never enforced, except for a certain very famous case where it was.
asciilifeform: in the ussr, trade in (and even possession) of gold bullion was theoretically a capital opffense
mircea_popescu: i know a case of a woman that died through exploded colon because she and her coworker shoved an air compressor outlet in her ass
mircea_popescu: a, certainly. nothing man made is harmless.
benderp: "hardest target in bitcoin", to quote a guy.
mircea_popescu: nobody sane would try to bite a rosehip bush.
mircea_popescu: except i'm a fucking briar patch.
mircea_popescu: it's not a matter of like.
Ghaleon: we need to propel bit coin to mass respectability,.. one inch at a time
asciilifeform: a study of tigers and when/how/why they eat human
mircea_popescu: or, "every ass looks good on a bike. that's why we buy bikes"
mircea_popescu: you have no idea what depression is until you've seen the depths through the eyes of a high ranking bureaucrat.